How Well Does Union Budget 2013-14 Address Gender-based Challenges?
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
2013
Working Paper
GRB
The paper examines the Gender Budget Statement presented in Union Budget 2013-14 to determine how robust and comprehensive it is. It reveals how gender budgeting has been a limited exercise owing to its narrow interpretation by various ministries and departments. In fact, it has been reduced to an ex -post accounting exercise, whereby merely reporting certain proportion of funds for women and girl children has been seen as an end in itself.